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Mary Maxine Browne -
Mary
Maxine is fluent in Dutch, German and Spanish, and has long-term
experience living as a foreigner abroad in the Netherlands, Great
Britain, and Canada. Her professional background is in writing,
literature, and theatre. Mary Maxine specializes in accent reduction
with ESL students and has been active as a long-term private ESL
tutor for many Purdue international students. She also has several
years experience teaching and tutoring ESL students in her
capacities as an instructor for ENGL 106 Writing Composition as well
as serving for five years as the writing tutor for a Purdue graduate
course in grant and proposal writing. Concurrent to these
activities, she also edits for ESL writers at Purdue who are
completing masters' and doctoral theses. Mary Maxine can be reached
by phone at 765-743-1030 or via e-mail,
mmb@purdue.edu
Heather Day - Heather
emigrated to the United States from England as a high school student.
She has lived and worked in four countries, and she has studied and
continues to study several languages. Her B.A. is in French and
she holds two Master's degrees. Heather has worked as a
professional librarian, and has had experience in editing,
grant-writing, and compiling bibliographies for publication.
Currently, Heather teaches academic writing classes and TOEFL at the ESOL
Program, Purdue Village and tutors ESL students (of all
ages) in conversation, writing, and test preparation. She also has an editing service with
special prices for students. She can be reached at 743-1197
(home), or at the ESOL Program, 494-0500. Heather's e-mail
address is
heatherday@purdue.edu.
Mary Gitzen - Mary received her
Ph.D. in English from Purdue in May 2002. With over 30 years
experience teaching students from pre-K to adult, Mary has specialized
in teaching ESL for the past 12 years, focusing especially on
pronunciation and fluency, everyday conversation, and business
communication. She can be reached at 743-9465 (home), or e-mail
magitz@purdue.edu.
Jeff Katz - Jeff has a B.S. in
Biology from Purdue. He was a volunteer tutor, a teacher's
aide, and finally a teacher at the Lafayette Adult Resource Academy
where he had a now-expired Indiana teacher's license. Jeff has
been teaching English to visiting professors and scholars, PhD
students, and their spouses since 1999. He enjoys helping
students improve their confidence (ja-shin-gam) and pronunciation by
talking and reading about subjects of interest with them in a
relaxed atmosphere. Jeff can be reached by phone any day until
midnight at 765-586-5966 or by e-mail at
katz1803@gmail.com
Beth Lageveen - Beth has been
teaching English to international students for over ten years.
She has an MS degree from Purdue in Education and holds a current
Indiana teaching certificate. She has taught in the Oral
English Proficiency Program at Purdue University, for Tippecanoe
School Corporation's Adult ESL program, Purdue's ESOL program, and
for IOR Global Services. Beth tutors students of all ages and
levels. She also tutors long-distance on Skype. Beth enjoys
helping students with conversation skills, pronunciation, and
acclimating to the U.S. She can be reached in the evenings at
765-743-8218 or by e-mail, blagevee@purdue.edu.
SuLing Lim - SuLing is a graduate
student in Speech Language Pathology at Purdue. She received
her B.S. in Speech Language Pathology from Miami University in 2010,
and has a minor in Chinese. She is from Malaysia, and
therefore is also fluent in Malay. During her undergraduate
years she studied Chinese abroad at Peking University, China.
Due to her major, SuLing has experience with adults as well as
children in terms of pronunciation, intonation, accent modification,
conversation skills, and fluency. She can be contacted via
e-mail (lim79@purdue.edu) or
by phone 513-377-7071.
Beth Tucker - Beth is an immigration counselor at Purdue who has worked with
international students and ESL students for the past 20 years. She has
a B.Ph. in Linguistics with TESOL certification and MA in
Intercultural Studies. Prior to working as an international student
advisor for six years, Beth taught ESL for 3 years in Taipei and
Taichung, Taiwan. She also taught ESL to U.S. immigrants in three
community college programs in Chicago, Illinois. She is fluent in Mandarin
Chinese and has studied Spanish. She is available for tutoring in
pronunciation, conversation, and writing, in the evenings and on
weekends and can be reached at 418-7796, or email her at
tuckerb@purdue.edu.
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